BLB 1Th 4

From the Blue Letter Bible

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1Th 4:6 — That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

go		Exd 20:15,17; Lev 19:11,13; Deu 24:7; Deu 25:13-16; Pro 11:1; Pro 16:11; Pro 20:14; Pro 20:23; Pro 28:24; Isa 5:7; Isa 59:4-7; Jer 9:4; Eze 22:13; Eze 45:9-14; Amo 8:5,6; Zep 3:5; Mal 3:5; Mar 10:19; 1Cr 6:7-9; Eph 4:28; Jam 5:4
defraud		or, oppress, or, over-reach. Lev 25:14,17; 1Sa 12:3,4; Pro 22:22; Jer 7:6; Mic 2:2; Zep 3:1; Jam 2:6
in any matter		or, in the matter
the Lord		Deu 32:35; Job 31:13,14; Psa 94:1; Psa 140:12; Pro 22:22,23; Ecc 5:8; Isa 1:23,24; Rom 1:18; Rom 12:19; Eph 5:6; 2Th 1:8
as we		Luk 12:5; Gal 5:21; Eph 4:17

Correlating Passages

	Exd 20:15	Thou shalt not steal.
	Exd 20:17	Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's.
	Lev 19:11	Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
	Lev 19:13	Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob [him]: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
	Deu 24:7	If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
	Deu 25:13	Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
	Deu 25:14	Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
	Deu 25:15	[But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
	Deu 25:16	For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
	Pro 11:1	A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
	Pro 16:11	A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
	Pro 20:14	[It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
	Pro 20:23	Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.
	Pro 28:24	Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, [It is] no transgression; the same [is] the companion of a destroyer.
	Isa 5:7	For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
	Isa 59:4	None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
	Isa 59:5	They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
	Isa 59:6	Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.
	Isa 59:7	Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.
	Jer 9:4	Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
	Eze 22:13	Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
	Eze 45:9	Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
	Eze 45:10	Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
	Eze 45:11	The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
	Eze 45:12	And the shekel [shall be] twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
	Eze 45:13	This [is] the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
	Eze 45:14	Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, [ye shall offer] the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] an homer of ten baths; for ten baths [are] an homer:
	Amo 8:5	Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
	Amo 8:6	That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?
	Zep 3:5	The just LORD [is] in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
	Mal 3:5	And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
	Mar 10:19	Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
	1Cr 6:7	Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded?
	1Cr 6:8	Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.
	1Cr 6:9	Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
	Eph 4:28	Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
	Jam 5:4	Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

defraud

	Lev 25:14	And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
	Lev 25:17	Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God.
	1Sa 12:3	Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
	1Sa 12:4	And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
	Pro 22:22	Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
	Jer 7:6	[If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
	Mic 2:2	And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
	Zep 3:1	Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
	Jam 2:6	But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

the Lord

	Deu 32:35	To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
	Job 31:13	If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
	Job 31:14	What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
	Psa 94:1	O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
	Psa 140:12	I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, [and] the right of the poor.
	Pro 22:22	Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
	Pro 22:23	For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
	Ecc 5:8	If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they.
	Isa 1:23	Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
	Isa 1:24	Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
	Rom 1:18	For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;